Navigational tips and beauty spots around the south-east coast of the Isle of Wight.

From Prince Philip’s playground, we pass a German industrialist’s folly and the island’s newest harbour, before snorting at The Nostrils and pausing for thought at the site of the French invasion on the way to Bembridge Ledge.

Click on the pages below to find out a little more about each part of the journey.

  1. 1. Introduction
  2. 2. Reeth Bay and Puckaster Cove
  3. 3. Binnel Bay to Steephill Cove
  4. 4. Appuldurcombe House
  5. 5. Ventnor - the Palm Springs of Wight
  6. 6. HMS Eurydice
  7. 7. Ventnor Harbour
  8. 8. Wheeler's Bay to Steel Bay
  9. 9. Bonchurch - 'the prettiest place'
  10. 10. Rounding Dunnose Head
  11. 11. Darwin of Shanklin
  12. 12. Sandown at war
  13. 13. Culver Cliff
  14. 14. Whitecliff Bay
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